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Hungary, Tatarstan Latest To Go FOSS
christian.einfeldt writes "It seems as if almost every other week there is news of another government migration toward Free Open Source Software. Two of the most recent such moves come from Hungary and the tiny independent former Russian republic of Tatarstan. On April 2, the Hungarian government announced that it will be modifying its procurement rules to mandate that open source procurement funding match expenditures for proprietary software, according to Ferenc Baja, deputy minister for information technology. In Tatarstan, a Republic of 3.8 million inhabitants, the Deputy Minister of Education announced that by the end of this school year, all 2,400 educational institutions in Tatarstan will have completed a transition to GNU/Linux, following a successful pilot program it rolled out in 2008."
It makes perfect sense. For every one million OpenOffice installations, a government department can buy zero copies of Microsoft.
Well it's about time! We can rejoice, my FOSS brothers.
... Tatarstan will get a lot of plaque from Microsoft for this move.
(yes, I originally read it as "Tartarstan")
My life's goal is to get a score of +3!
Russia - which used to be the bad guy - is adoptng Linux - which is the good guy - while the US - who is supposed to be the good guy - keeps hanging onto Microsoft - which are the bad guys?
So who are we supposed to support if they ever go to war?
PS: are they going to change the name of the capital of Tatarstan to Linuxgrad? And they could also have a Stallmangrad. Think of the tourism income from geeks...
I am anarch of all I survey.
In Hungary, Steve Ballmer usually gets eggs.